---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to hearing and public notice requirements regarding the conversion by a municipality of certain properties to house homeless individuals."
description: "Relating to hearing and public notice requirements regarding the conversion by a municipality of certain properties to house homeless individuals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "SB 617"
citation: "Texas SB 617 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Government--General (I0060)", "HOMELESS (S0243)", "Housing--Homeless Persons (I0404)", "PUBLIC NOTICE (S0264)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris Davila", "Schwertner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-12-13"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ff85e55-3e6e-4279-9fb2-d74ff760c03b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00600_SB00699/SB 617.xml"
source_hash: "b101684ab6a06e0b0490e1391af38fc189a26519b94a81c2b7b1c34b5eb78c75"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas SB 617 (89R) — Relating to hearing and public notice requirements regarding the conversion by a municipality of certain properties to house homeless individuals.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00617I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00617E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00617H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00617S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00617F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **22–9** (pass) · upper
- passage — **25–6** (pass) · upper
- passage — **97–38** (pass) · lower
- passage — **87–47** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harris Davila — primary (person)
- Schwertner — primary (person)
- Shofner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-12-13** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2024-12-13** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-03-17** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-17** Left pending in committee
- **2025-03-24** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-24** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-03-25** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-04-01** Placed on intent calendar
- **2025-04-02** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2025-04-02** Record vote
- **2025-04-02** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Record vote
- **2025-04-02** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-04-02** Record vote
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Record vote
- **2025-04-02** Reported engrossed
- **2025-04-03** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-09** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-04-28** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-05-09** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-13** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2025-05-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-13** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2025-05-13** Record vote
- **2025-05-13** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-14** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Record vote
- **2025-05-14** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-14** House passage reported `passage`
- **2025-05-14** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-15** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-05-15** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-27** Effective on 9/1/25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ff85e55-3e6e-4279-9fb2-d74ff760c03b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).